PCI Geomatics Software Supports Landsat-8 Sensor

RICHMOND HILL, Ontario, Canada—May 30, 2013: PCI Geomatics, a world-leading developer of remote sensing and photogrammetric software and systems, announced today that it now supports Landsat-8 imagery within its software suite.

Having officially entered its operation phase, Landsat-8 provides continuity to the Landsat Mission, which has been capturing imagery of the earth since 1972, dating back to the original Landsat satellite, the Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS), or Landsat-1.

With PCI’s software, users will be able to perform essential image correction tasks such as pansharpening and mosaicking—common image processing tasks for Landsat imagery. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) which today took over operations for Landsat-8, will distribute data according to the World Reference System -2 (WRS-2) collection grid, which often results in the need for multiple images to be used to cover areas of interest. Using PCI software, these multiple images can be corrected and merged into a single pansharpened, mosaicked data set.

“The international remote sensing community has been looking forward to this moment for several years, and we are pleased to offer support for Landsat-8,” said Peter Hazlett, Product Manager at PCI Geomatics.

PCI’s support for Landsat-8, which will be available in Geomatica 2013 SP2, includes rapid and high-quality pansharpening capability, as well as automated mosaicking. Landsat-8 imagery will be freely distributed through USGS; an estimated 400 images per day will be collected and made available through online data distribution portals such as Glovis and EarthExplorer.

To view a sample of Landsat-8 imagery processed through PCI’s software, visit:

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About PCI Geomatics

PCI Geomatics is a world-leading developer of software and systems for remote sensing, imagery processing, and photogrammetry.  With more than 30 years of experience in the geospatial industry, PCI is recognized globally for its excellence in providing software for accurately and rapidly processing both satellite and aerial imagery.  PCI has installed more than 30 thousand licenses, in over 150 countries worldwide. Find out more about PCI Geomatics at www.pcigeomatics.com.

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Kevin R. Jones
Director, Marketing and Communications
T: 819-770-0022 x 214
E: jones@pcigeomatics.com
Web: www.pcigeomatics.com

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PCI Geomatics to Participate in Canadian Geomatica Technology Showcase in Latin America

RICHMOND HILL, Ontario, Canada—May 28, 2013: PCI Geomatics, a world-leading developer of remote sensing and photogrammetric software and systems, announced today that they, together with RapidEye and Intermap, will offer free Information Sessions in Santiago, Chile (June 11, 2013), and Lima, Peru (June 13, 2013). The roadshow, which includes the participation of Canadian Geospatial companies, is occurring only a few weeks following Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s visit to Colombia and Peru, where he met with leaders and representatives from the private sector to help increase economic prosperity in the region.

PCI Geomatics, RapidEye, and Intermap will showcase innovations in geospatial technology for imagery, elevation, and software that can be leveraged to make efficient and informed business decisions through the use of these companies’ technology offerings.

Informative sessions will be delivered on the following topics:

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PCI Geomatics

Geomatica: PCI’s Desktop Image Processing software – featuring Geomatica 2013’s latest advances, including atmospheric correction, improved support for large projects, and detailed digital elevation model extraction.

Geomatica Discover: Geomatica Discover is a new, standalone software tool for automated data discovery on local or network storage devices.

Production Workflows – highlighting Historical Airphoto Processing Production: Significantly reduce manual labor, double production speeds, and achieve high levels of accuracy with the semi-automated Historical Airphoto Workflow.

GXL Systems: Designed to be scalable and high speed, the GeoImaging Accelerator (GXL) can process terabytes of satellite and aerial imagery per day through the power of distributed, GPU-enabled computing. 

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Intermap Technologies

Intermap (www.intermap.com) is an industry leader in geospatial solutions on demand. Through its powerful suite of 3DBI applications and proprietary development of contiguous databases that fuse volumes of GIS data into a single source, Intermap is able to provide location-based solutions for customers in diverse markets around the world that solve today’s complex geospatial challenges. 

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RapidEye

RapidEye (www.rapideye.com) is a leading provider of quality high-resolution satellite imagery. With a constellation of five Earth Observation satellites, RapidEye is able to image up to five million square kilometers of Earth every day, and adds over one billion square kilometers of imagery to its archive every year. Online searching and viewing of its massive collection of imagery is quick and easy with EyeFind (eyefind.rapideye.com), RapidEye's archive discovery tool. With an unprecedented combination of wide area repetitive coverage and five meter pixel size multi-spectral imagery, RapidEye is a natural choice for many industries and government agencies.

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If you wish to receive more information, or to attend, please contact the regional Representatives:

Peru Alonso Portales Fí­del Director Gerente GEOMATICA SOLUCIONES S.A.C. aportales@geomaticasoluciones.com

Chile Walton W. EdwardsConsultor Gerente GeoSoluciones wedwards@geosoluciones.cl

Or contact us at marketing@pcigeomatics.com.

About PCI Geomatics

PCI Geomatics is a world-leading developer of software and systems for remote sensing, imagery processing, and photogrammetry.  With more than 30 years of experience in the geospatial industry, PCI is recognized globally for its excellence in providing software for accurately and rapidly processing both satellite and aerial imagery.  PCI has installed more than 30 thousand licenses, in over 150 countries worldwide. Find out more about PCI Geomatics at www.pcigeomatics.com.

Press Contact

Kevin R. Jones
Director, Marketing and Communications
T: 819-770-0022 x 214
E: jones@pcigeomatics.com
Web: www.pcigeomatics.com

Twitter: @pcigeomatics

PCI Geomatics Renews Gold-Tier Partnership with Esri

RICHMOND HILL, Ontario, Canada—May 9, 2013: PCI Geomatics, a world-leading developer of remote sensing and photogrammetric software and systems, announced today that is has renewed its Gold-Tier Partnership with Esri for 2013, through the Esri Partner Network (EPN). An Esri partner since April 2009, PCI Geomatics provides leading-edge technology that integrates with Esri’s ArcGIS solution and allows users to automatically process and analyze satellite imagery from many different sensors.

“PCI Geomatics provides excellent tools to correct satellite and aerial imagery that makes it possible for GIS users to analyze and extract accurate information in their daily decision making process,” said Alex Miller, President, Esri Canada.

“Through our partnership with Esri, we have improved access to high-quality imagery at a global scale, by providing a system for Esri to process over 50 million square kilometers of imagery using our GXL technology deployed to the Amazon Cloud,” said Terry Moloney, President and CEO of PCI Geomatics. “In addition to providing image-processing software, PCI Geomatics is actively developing a Cloud strategy to leverage the power of Esri’s ArcGIS Online platform.”

PCI Geomatics software provides powerful and accurate image correction capability that scales from desktop, server, and cloud-based systems to handle projects of any size. PCI’s innovative development and powerful systems led them to work with Esri Inc. on an ambitious project to build a 1m resolution basemap for ArcGIS Online. Through the use of a cloud-based Image processing system, over 50 million square kilometers were orthorectified, pansharpened, and mosaicked using massive amounts of parallel processing on Amazon’s cloud with PCI’s GXL technology.

“Once again, Esri Canada is pleased to sponsor PCI Geomatics as an Esri Gold-Tier Partner,” added Miller. “We continue to work closely with PCI Geomatics to support our Canadian operations, having recently leveraged their technology to fulfill our own project requirements.”

PCI and Esri also announced the grant recipients for the Esri and PCI Natural Resource Imagery Grant Program – 24 organizations have been selected to receive over $100,000 worth of software and imagery to solve key natural resources challenges using the combination of image processing and remote sensing for GIS. The program will play a key role in furthering the understanding of how imagery can be used beyond a reference dataset within the GIS community and beyond. The partnership will also focus on deploying Esri and PCI Geomatics’ software, along with imagery data from MDA and RapidEye, via the Esri and PCI Geomatics Grant Program.

For more information about the Esri and PCI Imagery Grant Program, click here: www.esri.com/imagerygrant

About PCI Geomatics

PCI Geomatics is a world leading developer of software and systems to process aerial and satellite imagery. The company provides integrated Esri imagery workflows, standalone image processing capability, and large volume processing throughput; giving customers the ability to produce high quality ortho-mosaic products and derived information for any project. Find out more at www.pcigeomatics.com

About Esri

Since 1969, Esri has been giving customers around the world the power to think and plan geographically. The market leader in geographic information system (GIS) technology, Esri software is used in more than 300,000 organizations worldwide including each of the 200 largest cities in the United States, most national governments, more than two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies, and more than 7,000 colleges and universities. Esri applications, running on more than one million desktops and thousands of Web and enterprise servers, provide the backbone for the world's mapping and spatial analysis. Esri is the only vendor that provides complete technical solutions for desktop, mobile, server, and Internet platforms. Visit us at esri.com/news.

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Kevin R. Jones
Director, Marketing and Communications
T: 819-770-0022 x 214
E: jones@pcigeomatics.com
Web: www.pcigeomatics.com

Twitter: @pcigeomatics

PCI Geomatics Software Supports KOMPSAT-3 Sensor

RICHMOND HILL, Ontario, Canada—May 03, 2013: PCI Geomatics, a world-leading developer of remote sensing and photogrammetric software and systems, announced today that it now supports KOMPSAT-3 imagery within its software suite.

KOMPSAT-3, a new satellite built and operated by the Korean Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) was launched on May 12^th, 2012 from the Tanegashima Space Center of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Japan. KOMPSAT-3 is an optical imaging satellite capable of imaging the Earth with a resolution of 0.70 m Panchromatic and 2.8 m Multispectral (Blue, Green, Red, Near-IR). KOMPSAT-3 includes the Advanced Earth Imaging Sensor System (AEISS), which is a high-resolution imager (Pan and MS). This prime instrument of the mission was developed by KARI.

"We are very pleased with the great effort of PCI Geomatics," said Dr. TaeByeong CHAE, Head of the Satellite information Proliferation Team at KARI. "With this new and improved solution, KOMPSAT-3 images will be more easily accessible and useful to the public and commercial users around the globe," he added.

“We have worked closely with KARI to validate our software’s support for KOMPSAT-3 imagery,” said Dr. Philip Cheng, Senior Scientist at PCI Geomatics. “Our software includes support for the new Single Pass Stereo Mode, which will be capable of extracting high-resolution DEMs. Users of our software will also have the ability to pansharpen KOMPSAT-3 imagery.”

PCI has performed quality control on the imagery to determine the achievable accuracy, and found the correction of the KOMPSAT-3 imagery to be very accurate using the Rational Polynomial Coefficients (RPC) provided.  The support for KOMPSAT-3 will be available in a future service pack for Geomatica 2013 and can be deployed now in PCI’s enterprise-level production systems.

PCI’s support for KOMPSAT-3 will include RPC model creation and the Toutin Model (allowing for very accurate corrections using the satellite orbital ephemeris data) as well as rapid and high-quality pansharpening capability. KOMPSAT-3 images have been provided by Satrec Initiative, which holds the exclusive right for global distribution right for the KOMPSAT series of satellites.

For more information on PCI’s support for KOMPSAT-3 and processing capabilities that are available within Geomatica 2013, visit: http://www.pcigeomatics.com/products/geomatica-2013

About the Korea AeroSpace Research Institute (KARI)

Established in 1989, KARI is devoted to its role as the leading aerospace research and development institute in Korea. KOMPSAT-2 was successfully launched on July 28th 2006 and recently KOMPSAT-3, the latest satellite of KOMPSAT series, was launched on May 18th 2012. KARI is now developing KOMPSAT-3A and KOMPSAT-5 in an effort to expand Korea’s national space development program. The goal of KARI is to establish a 24-hour satellite observation system surrounding the Korean Peninsula through the KOMPSAT series. Find out more about KARI at http://www.kari.re.kr/eng/

About the Satrec Initiative

Satrec Initiative (SI) is the leading solution provider for Earth observation missions, offering customers worldwide high performance, cost-effective turnkey satellite platforms, electro-optical instruments, ground systems and components. Focusing on the customers’ needs with innovative technologies, SI has delivered optimized high quality solutions to over 20 customers in the Middle East, Asia and Europe. Si has  exclusive sales right of Kompsat 2, 3 and 5. Find out more about Satrec Initiative at https://www.satreci.com/eng/

About PCI Geomatics

PCI Geomatics is a world-leading developer of software and systems for remote sensing, imagery processing, and photogrammetry.  With more than 30 years of experience in the geospatial industry, PCI is recognized globally for its excellence in providing software for accurately and rapidly processing both satellite and aerial imagery.  PCI has installed more than 30 thousand licenses, in over 150 countries worldwide. Find out more about PCI Geomatics at www.pcigeomatics.com.

Press Contact

Kevin R. Jones
Director, Marketing and Communications
T: 819-770-0022 x 214
E: jones@pcigeomatics.com
Web: www.pcigeomatics.com

Twitter: @pcigeomatics